St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-20
A FOOLS WISDOM.

There is very breezy young lady of
literary tastes living on Summit avenue,
who thought the acme Of her desires
had been attained when she was intro
duced to CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER,
who has been paying us visit. After
clasping his hand she commenced the
conversation with the inquiry:
"Oh, MIR. WARNER, don't you adore
BROwNING?"
Mr.. WARNER murmured in reply that
the section Of country he came from
thought something of the mystic poet.
"We," she continued, with much en-
phasis, "think that he scoops the whole
lot"
This reminds me of the story told on
acertain other young lady who started an
art conversation with CHARLES NOEL
FLAGG by observing quite learnedly
that the ''rOcOcO" effects of Oriental
painting were not attained by Western
artists. Looking at her for moment to
assure himself that she was really talk
ing art, he replied:
dear Miss B, rocco is very
good, but the effect can only be obtained
through a glass, wine-Stained, and then
gazed at after dark
She talks art now with her mother,
and avoids all reference to 'rococo.'"
**
They were making their toilets for
Thursday nights charity ball. Her
dress was alarmingly low cut, and as he
gaZed on her exposed area of bosom,
shoulder blades and neck, he inquired:
rs this not charity ball, my dear?'
Eyes, why?"
81 was going to suggest that if it was
you should harmonic your dress with
it."
"How?"
''By making it cover a multitude of
sins"
ELI WARNER, despite the fact that he
pulls the strings at the state capitol that
operate the manikin in the governors
room, has enough enemies to make him
uneasy If he ever stops to recognize the
fact. One of these, speaking of him the
other day. said:
Il had quarrel with him once, and
while we were using hard words to each
other | called him an obstinate little
dwarf. He wanted me to apologize,
claiming that had inSulted him, so l
said:
81 withdraw the assertion that you are
obstinate, but hang it. sir, you will al
ways remain runt.'"
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1t is scarcely year ago that | had
conversation with ID. B. SEARLE Gov.
MCGILL'S latest judicial creatiOn) i'll
the course of which he said that he was
a candidate for congress from the Fifth
diStrictin 1888. | understand now that his
elevation to the bench has only changed
his plans this much-that he will post
pOne his congressional aspirations until
four or six years from now. His with
drawal from the fight of next year SIM
plifieS the situation but little. Judge
STEARNs may have the congressional
fever ever so bad, but Duluth isn't big
enough yet to dictate nominations to
the Red river valley and the st. Cloud
sections. They, with the assistance of
Brainerd, can dictate who shall succeed
KNUTE NELSON. While even the
Pioneer Press admits that MCGILL con-
suited the politicians in appointing st.
Cloud man to the bench, he did it with
out accurate knowledge as to how the
heavy German vote of that section feels
toward him. Fifty appointments could
not bring that vote back to him, nor to
the Republican party. The German
voters are looking pretty steadily at the
diminished profits of their brewerles,
and the tendencies toward whisky
drinking that are increasing, and they
realize that this loss, imposed upon them
TO catch Prohibition vOteS,iS due to Gov.
MCGILL and his party.
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1t is a significant fact that four
months of the operation of the high Ii
cenSe law brings from the dealers in
whisky, brandies and alcohol the asser-
ton that business is much better (25 per
cent increaSe) since the law went into
effect than before. There is a remark
able demand for cheap grades of
whisky from all parts of the state. On
the other hand, except in the very larg
est brewerieS of st. Paul and Mime
apOlis. there is continued decrease in
the production of beer. That is logi-
cal solution of the high license problem.
The number of saloons are diminished.
There is less demand for beer and
great increase i'll the demand for
whisky. The wholesale liquor houses
are increasing in number. The brew
cries are diminishing. If an Irishman
drinks at all he usually drinks whisky.
When a German drinks he takes beer.
There are 10000 Irish votes in the state
and over $4,000 German. From the
above statement child might figure
out how many of these 10000 votes the
Republican party will have next fall.
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party next year, unless it stoOps to con-
Quer by toying with prohibition.
What a sOmersault this will necessi-
tate may bejudged by the fact that Gov.
MCGILL. STANFORD Newell, w. X.
| MERRIAM, JOEL HEATwoLE, ID. b.
| SEARLE, the PILLSBURYS, and all the
other party leaders do not believe in
prohibition and would never think of
advocating it, except as a matter of
| party eXpediency. | understand that
they have mapped out two courses for
! the campaign. one of which will be
adopted when the fight begins. The first
! is to incorporate in the Republican
state platform plank advocating the
passage by the next legislature of con-
stitutiOnal prOhibitory amendment; this
| to be voted upon by the people before it
can take effect. The other course is to
let prohibition entirely alone, and to ask
from the people endorsement of their
high license policy. which they will claim
has revOlutionized the liquor traffic in
the state. That the people may under
stand that the Republicans are not jok
ing in proposing to adopt prohibition,
quote from an editorial of Gov. McGill's
organ the following, written in 1885:
To-day we sheathe the sword. Let
the prohibitiOnistS have their way
This was written under the spur of
the defeat of the first high license bill,
and on the assumption that no one but
the liquor dealers defeated it. Now the
cry will be, not against an Oppressive
oligarchy'' of liquor dealers, but Let
the prohibitionists have their way to
save the Republican party"
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b Dan Moon has about as hale and
hearty a father-in-law as l think any
st. Paul jobber can present for public
admiration. He is Col. DIN, of ROcheS-
ter, and he celebrated his seventy-fifth
birthday on the 9th of October, and on
the 10th of that month observed the
fifty-fifth anniversary of his marriage.
He trots around with great spryness,